Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 16

Bearded dragons, like all reptiles, warm up on sun or warm rock before they can move fast, and wave one arm slowly to show they give in.

Who acts: Bearded dragons, magpies · What happens: warm up, move, wave, show, give in · To what, where: one arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bearded dragons, magpies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dragons	amod
2	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 warm	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reptiles	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 reptiles	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 reptiles	det
6	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dragons	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dragons	punct
8	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 warm	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 sun	case
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warm	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 rock	cc
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rock	amod
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	conj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 move	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 move	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 move	aux
18	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 warm	advcl
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 move	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wave	cc
22	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warm	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 arm	nummod
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wave	obj
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 wave	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 show	mark
27	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wave	advcl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	nsubj
29	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 show	ccomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	29 give	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 warm	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	Bearded dragons like all reptiles		on sun or warm rock	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent on sun=Instrument
2	move	can	magpies = magpie		fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	wave	present	Bearded dragons like all reptiles not said here	one arm	slowly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
4	show	to-infinitive	Bearded dragons like all reptiles not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give in	present	magpies = magpie			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:16.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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